Latest Freemarket Podcast Episodes
580 Clean Fuel Standard (House Bill 41) Impacts with Todd Myers
Tipping Point New Mexico - February 13, 2024 18:07 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn this week's interview (which we are running BEFORE the end of the session due to its timely nature) Paul sits down with Todd Myers to discuss legislation moving in the Legislature to impose a Clean Fuel Standard (HB 41). What would such a law actually do if imposed in New Mexico? Would it rai...
579 Oil and Gas Industry: Impacts and Attacks with Jim Winchester
Tipping Point New Mexico - February 08, 2024 16:55 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn this week's interview Paul interviews Jim Winchester. Jim is Executive Director of the Independent Petroleum Association of NM. Jim's group specifically works with smaller oil and gas producers. Paul and Jim discuss the various ways in which his industry is under attack in the 2024 legisla...
578 Legislative session, "Clean Fuel", Paid Leave Update, Oil and Gas, and Another EV issue
Tipping Point New Mexico - February 06, 2024 19:43 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsPaul and Wally begin with a discussion of the most important issues being discussed in the Legislature. The big alcohol tax hikes aren't getting much traction, but the tax hikes contained in them are insane. The Gov. wanted $110 million to eliminate 4 day school weeks. Rep. Armstron...
577 Education Reform and School Choice with Rebecca Dow
Tipping Point New Mexico - February 01, 2024 17:59 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn this week's episode Paul talks to former legislator and gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Dow. Dow is now heading up the Opportunity for All Kids project for the Rio Grande Foundation. She works every day to bring education reform and school choice to New Mexico. Paul and Rebecca discuss School...
576 Pushing Against Bad Bills, Federal LNG Permits Paused, Texas Border and more
Tipping Point New Mexico - January 30, 2024 17:12 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsPaul was recently in Ruidoso to talk about government regulations and EV mandates at a Conservative Conference. Other speakers include James Lindsay and Sheriff RichardClarke. Ben Luna organized the event. RGF has continued its work in Santa Fe, mostly pushing back against bad bills. Here are...
Quit Monkeying Around with Our Money: Festivus 2023
T&T Liberty Factory - January 30, 2024 15:02 - 32 minutesTank and Tracy review Dr. Rand Paul's annual Festivus government waste report and the disclosures are terrifying with many government funded studies abusing animals to "study" things that don't need to be studied. The Full Report The best nation is a donation. Every little bit helps out a ...
575 New Mexico Insurance Commissioner Opposition to Health Sharing Plans with Katy Talento of Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries
Tipping Point New Mexico - January 25, 2024 17:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn this week's interview Paul discusses the New Mexico Insurance Commissioner's efforts to kill Christian Health Sharing plans in New Mexico. Katy Talento is a health care expert and Executive Director of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries. We discuss how the plans work and why they ...
574 Clean Fuel Standard, Four-Day School Weeks, Ronald Reagan and more
Tipping Point New Mexico - January 23, 2024 19:40 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsPaul was in the Roundhouse on Saturday testifying against HB 41 (Clean Fuel Standard). Another bill heard during that hearing (HB 48) would increase taxes on NM's oil and gas industry. Both passed out of the Committee. Another bill, HB 114 attempts to squash the entire oil and gas industry. M...
573 Gun Laws in 2024 New Mexico Legislative Session with Zach Fort
Tipping Point New Mexico - January 18, 2024 18:47 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn this week's interview Paul talks to Zach Fort of the New Mexico Shooting Sports Association about Gov. Lujan Grisham's plans to take away your guns during the 2024 legislative session. We know from this summer's radical and anti-constitutional executive order that this Gov. is not a believer ...
572 A Look at Bills for the 2024 New Mexico Legislative Session and more
Tipping Point New Mexico - January 16, 2024 18:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsThe session begins today. For starters Paul sits down with Carol Wight of the NM Restaurant Association to discuss a proposal for paid leave as well as plans to increase taxes on alcohol. These are a few of the pre-filed bills that we are looking at with some additional links: HB 41: Clean f...
571 Lori Coleman - Opposition to Proposed Mimbres Peaks National Monument
Tipping Point New Mexico - January 11, 2024 19:34 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn this week's interview Paul talks to Lori Coleman. Lori is a small-time miner in Southern, NM and the Florida mountains. She owns Spanish Stirrup Rock Shop, LLC & the SS Stone Gallery in Luna County and Lincoln County, New Mexico. She opposes plans by some politicians in New Mexico to mak...
570 EV Mandate Update, Paid Family Leave Legislation, Budget Surplus and PNM Merger Failure
Tipping Point New Mexico - January 09, 2024 20:27 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn this week's conversation Paul and Wally discuss the Foundation's ongoing work regarding electric vehicle mandates in New Mexico. The Foundation has also been requesting public records from various governments regarding EV deployment and costs. New Mexico's 30-day legislative session is rig...
569 Improving Educational Outcomes with Donn Illerbrun - Superintendent of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe's Schools
Tipping Point New Mexico - January 04, 2024 21:18 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn this week's Tipping Point New Mexico interview Paul sits down with Donna Illerbrun, Superintendent of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe's schools. Donna and Paul discuss the benefits of the Catholic education model, the shuttering of one school recently, New Mexico's "birth dearth" and outmigration...
568 Happy New Year!, MLG's latest EV mandate, NM Land Office revenues, US Census, & NM/Ohio
Tipping Point New Mexico - January 02, 2024 20:33 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsHappy New Year! On this week's conversation Paul and Wally discuss the holidays and some of their activities over the last few weeks. The Gov.'s EV charger mandate will be voted on by CID on Wednesday, January 3rd: https://errorsofenchantment.com/were-opposing-mlgs-next-ev-mandate-heres-ho...
567 New Mexico Politics with Mark Ronchetti
Tipping Point New Mexico - December 21, 2023 21:12 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn this week’s interview Paul sits down with 2022 New Mexico Republican candidate for Gov. Mark Ronchetti. Ronchetti and his wife Kristy currently create the No Doubt About It podcast, but Paul and Mark discuss the 2022 race, whether Republicans can win in New Mexico, and the impacts both the ab...
566 New Mexico's $10 Billion Welfare Programs, Cost of EV Chargers, PED Seeks to Micromanage Public and Private Schools and more
Tipping Point New Mexico - December 19, 2023 21:06 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsRGF was in the ABQ Journal over the weekend discussing the Gov.'s proposed EV charger mandates and how New Mexicans can push back. In related news Paul did a request of CNM. They said each level 2 EV charging station cost $45,000. LFC report says New Mexico's welfare programs are ineffectiv...
565 Government's Quiet Land Grab with Gabriella Hoffman
Tipping Point New Mexico - December 14, 2023 13:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn this week's interview Paul sat down with Gabriella Hoffman. She recently spoke at an RGF luncheon on "Government's Quiet Land Grab." You can view her slides here. Gabriella is director of the Center for Energy and Conservation at Independent Women’s Forum. She is a freelance media strategi...
Are We Making Voting Harder?
Free to Offend - December 13, 2023 12:06 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsIs ranked-choice voting best for Nevada? Jason Snead, Executive Director of the Honest Elections Project, joins Nevada Policy Outreach and Coalitions Director Marcos Lopez for a special interview, recorded live recently at The Dangers of Ranked Choice Voting: a Grassroots Seminar.
564 Albuquerque Air Board Goes Rogue, New Mexico Land Grab, PED asks for $5.1B, More EV Mandates, Trever Cartoon
Tipping Point New Mexico - December 12, 2023 17:33 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsAlbuquerque air board and the crisis of democracy. Another land grab under way in Southern New Mexico. NM PED is requesting a mind-blowing $5.1 billion next year. How has education spending grown and what is happening with results? MLG's next attempt to force EV's on you (and how you...
563 Jon Decker of Viante - New Mexico Attorney General Third Party Contracts
Tipping Point New Mexico - December 07, 2023 18:51 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn this week's interview Paul talks to Jon Decker of Viante Foundation. Jon is President of the organization and local entrepreneur Dale Armstrong is the Founder. Viante was founded in 2017 to promote better schools, safer neighborhoods, and more economic opportunity in the state of New Mexico. ...
562 MLG in Dubai for Climate, Rooftop Solar, Freedom in NM report, FL vs. CA, & more
Tipping Point New Mexico - December 05, 2023 18:45 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsMLG flew to Dubai recently for the latest UN climate conference. Paul recently appeared on Mark/Krysty Ronchetti's "No Doubt About it"podcast. He discussed NM's new EV mandate; More than 3,800 car dealerships to Biden: tap brakes ono EV mandates. You can read their letter here and an ar...
561 Latest from Virgin Galactic and Spaceport New Mexico with Doug Messier
Tipping Point New Mexico - November 30, 2023 19:04 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn this week's interview Paul talks to Doug Messier, an expert on the private space industry. You can find his Substack here. We discuss the latest announcements from Virgin Galactic regarding their business model, layoffs, and flight cessation in 2024. If you care about Spaceport America and th...
560 Thanksgiving Card from the Governor, Rail Runner App has Incorrect Information, Jobs in Energy Sector and more
Tipping Point New Mexico - November 28, 2023 20:41 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsPaul was shocked over the Holiday to receive a Thanksgiving card (taxpayer funded of course) from the Gov. Over the Thanksgiving weekend I discovered (the hard way) the Rail Runner app has incorrect information on it. VP Kamala Harris uses a gas stove posing with her husband on soc...
Turning Working Nevadans into Activists
Free to Offend - November 28, 2023 12:45 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsHow can a public policy think tank change the way Nevadans think about the greatest challenges facing the state? President John Tsarpalas joined the program to talk about Nevada Policy’s work over the past year and its ambitious plans for turning even more Nevadans into activists for a freer ...
559 What are "Regulatory Sandboxes" and Will New Mexico Pass Legislation to Allow Them?
Tipping Point New Mexico - November 22, 2023 20:10 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn this week's episode Paul discusses an innovative approach to regulation that comes to us from Utah that has been embraced by red and blue states alike. The idea is the creation of "regulatory sandboxes" which allows live, time-bound testing of innovations under a regulator's oversight. Paul ...
558 Environment Improvement Board Decision on Electric Vehicles, Education Not Improving, Soccer Stadium and more
Tipping Point New Mexico - November 21, 2023 21:51 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsGov. Lujan Grisham's Environmental Improvement Board adopted her EV mandate. Find out more here and how RGF attempted to stop this debacle. According to a new LFC report New Mexico student results are not improving despite more money being pumped into education. The NY Times admits terrible learn...
Solar Powered Picnic Tables?
T&T Liberty Factory - November 19, 2023 20:42 - 27 minutesAn update on the Goon Squad out of Alabama, a bad female cop out of Colorado, price hikes in California to offset fast food minimum wage, a photo op gone wrong, a funny tactic Massachusetts uses to get out of public record requests and more! Urban Carry Holsters Check out Kyra's Herbs and Dr...
557 Setting the Record Straight with Sarah Jane Allen - Moms for Liberty
Tipping Point New Mexico - November 16, 2023 12:05 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsSarah Jane Allen is the head of Moms for Liberty Bernalillo County chapter. Mom's for Liberty has been the recipient of attacks from left wing groups and the media. What IS Mom's for Liberty and why is Sarah Jane involved? We clear up questions and set the record straight on this show.
Economic ‘Inequality’ isn’t the Problem
Free to Offend - November 15, 2023 12:25 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsWe hear a lot about “economic inequality” as a growing problem in the nation. However, we don’t hear nearly as much about what really matters to most people: economic mobility. Economic mobility is the simple idea that we’re capable of bettering our lot in life – that we have the ability to b...
556 EV Mandate at Environmental Improvement Board, Free Buses, Virgin Galactic Largely Pulls out of New Mexico and more
Tipping Point New Mexico - November 14, 2023 20:14 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 29 ratingsPaul attended and spoke at the EIB meeting. The Foundation continues to encourage New Mexicans to sign in opposition to the mandate at: KeepYourCarsNM. All members of the GOP Legislature oppose MLG's EV mandate. RGF pours cold water on "free buses," but a 6-3 majority on Council supports t...
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